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Journals

The Map and Geography Library holds approximately 600 journal and serial titles, some running back to the late 1880s. More than 250 titles are current subscriptions. Runs of titles vary in level of completeness.

Circulation

• Most unbound journals may be borrowed for 2 hours with appropriate ID.
• Most bound journals generally may be borrowed for 1 week with appropriate ID.

Click here for information about photocopying journals and other library materials.

Locating Journals

• Current issues and unbound volumes of journals are located behind the Circulation Desk. Individual issues may be borrowed for two hours by holders of current UIUC ID cards or area allied agency orange cards.  
• Bound journals are located in the Map and Geography bookstacks and are marked with yellow dots. Items are arranged by call number.  
• Some serials and conference proceedings are located in the Map and Geography Library bookstacks. A few are oversized and are located with the Map and Geography Library's quartos in the Reading Room. Items are arranged by call number.  
• Indexes and abstracts are located on the in the Map and Geography Reading Room underneath the window.  
• Older volumes may be in the Main Bookstacks (STX), located on the second floor of the Main Library. Items are arranged by call number.

Interpreting the language on the list

• cont. -  indicates that the title continues a previous title.
• cont. by -  indicates that a title is continued by a newer title.
• current only -  indicates that only the current issues are located in Map and Geography Library. Older issues are located in STX.

Finding articles in journals

The Map and Geography Library has several important indexing and abstracting sources in print format for finding publications in geography and related areas: Geographical Abstracts - Human Geography, Geographical Abstracts - Physical Geography, and Current Geographical Publications. Pre-1999 issues of Geographical Abstracts and current and past issues of Current Geographical Publicationsare kept in the Reading Room on the index table underneath the window.

GeoBase, the electronic version of Geographical Abstracts from 1990 to the present, is available through the University Library to UIUC students, staff, and faculty.

Links to other geographically-related databases can be found on the Map and Geography Library's Digital Journals page.

UIUC students and faculty have access to additional University Library subscriptions to indexing and abstracting databases, as well as full-text online journals through the Library's Online Research Resources page.

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